Bilboe Baggins or whatever film character you chose to be. BTW Bilbo not Bilbo”e”

How would you even know where i travelled and what i’ve done ? How does answering a specific question qualify as a brag exactly? I was asked something on this thread and i answered. I mentioned a few things and i didn’t mention any local stuff i do, organize, produce or manage. That would be bragging. I answered specifically.

LOTR won sound editing oscar (not moi – hello ?) the reason why i know is because one of the directors Phillipa Boyens let us know that we (My partner in crime and myself at the time) were part of that alongside Pinewood studios. As regards to what i did in the studio unless you were that annoying fly on that wall unf you will never know but i will tell you this. Should you want to send me an e-mail (i’m sure you’ll get my address ) i’ll be more than happy to let you know privately just in case you might interpret it as bragging. In the meantime you can check out the end credits of LOTR 2 , we were lucky enough to get the studio credited in the movie. You’ll be happy to see that as well.

The Glastonbury etc part is hilarious. So if i mentioned a list of festivals i managed to secure how would that be interpreted?a brag – LOL . Once again I’m up for the challenge . Send me an e-mail and i’ll send you the logs with audience attendance, date, place , promoter and location. You will be free to publish them no problem so it won’t be coming from my end. Not that all this means anything but since you are so interested in what i did and do…..

Another fixation is ‘the making it syndrome’. I’m blessed to wake up in the morning and do what i love doing, meet and work with talented and interesting people. Been doing it for quite some time now so i’m not complaining;-) Wishing you all the very best . There’s much more i can answer but truthfully , as entertaining as this was , i just don’t have anymore time to waste. Not sure if this will get published as 4 of my answers to your Qs weren’t published.

[Daphne – This exchange is now closed. I will not be accepting any more comments under this post.]

@ Amanda

If Howard is as you say he is, why is he still on this unresourceful – now more than ever – rock that Malta is?

Some record company overseas, should have signed him up years ago, don’t you think?

Plus when you start seeing producers, managers and supposedly well-known international singers, getting too cosy with local politics, that in itself means, they haven’t done much and that they’ve nothing to write home about.

In plain and simple terms: they’re just scraping what’s left in the bucket.

Irrid nizzewweg. Howard, taghmilii remix ta’ l-Ave Maria, Ira?

La taghmel il-funerali, nahseb mhix nieqsa mit-tiegijiet?

That and not having the right marketing structure.

Marketing in Malta is looked at an ‘extra expense’ and I don’t blame the system because some people in marketing are more cash than flash.

You just don’t get good value for money and when you look at all they do, you end up thinking: gosh I could have done all that myself, got my product to where I want it to go, and I would have made double – minus the marketing manager.

You really have to keep an eye on everything and everyone – most especially the self-proclaimed professionals.

Wow we finally managed to grab your little attention span.

Obviously the capitol letters are not shouting.They are there for you to read carefully and think hard,to grab you distorted short attention span.

So fire on tell us who wrote the song then.Tell us your success story.

Tell us about you your financial success from your royalties from the 3 million sales.

You have had ample time to make up a little story.

surely you got a cent or 2 for each mechanical sale,royalty airplays etc.

or did you make a bum deal and leave IRA broke?.

I guess you are leading her astray.

And this time type with 2 fingers please and make some English sense.

And now the mob for a certain Vince Taliana.

Daphne, you need people to help you; the work load is worse than at McDonald’s.

Howard, kieku ma ndunajtx li int Howard, il-manager ta’ Ira, kont nahsbek is-7th Wonder taghha.

The only person who’s ever made it on Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.

You are living in illusion if you think, your going to make it from your Facebook comfort zone.

Ok let’s structure this Facebook celebrity feeling.

I used to be a Facebook addict and talked, discussed, shared music photos on my page – Lou Bondi was my favourite.

I had ‘fans’ from all over Malta and when the Likes reached the 20,000 quota, I felt like Ringo Starr in New York from the comfort of my Facebook page.

I had my photos changed every week, if I was overseas, I’d take photos of myself – ah now that’s called a selfie – and I’d post them immediately.

This ‘Like’ thing was addicting me – I liked the attention , it made me feel BIG in Malta.

Then once it dawned on me that when I told my ‘fans’ this: just out of the shower, off to work in 10 miniutes, I’d get a 100 Likes or ‘just boiled an egg’ – 10 Likes.

It just clicked that people, those same addicts behind those PCs, were so fascinated by this ‘Like’ habit they developed that pressing the ‘Like’ button was to them what zapping channels on TV is to many. Or what pressing levers in lab-cages is to rats.

Another thing that brought me to my senses was Gilardu – the newsagent who’s got that small cabin on Renzo Piano’s Gate, in Valletta. I’d stop to buy my newspapers from him every day and as I’d be waiting to be served, I’d notice how Gilardu with no technology in his life maybe just a basic mobile, would get a multitude of people waving to him and shouting good morning on their way in to Valletta. That in my head is ‘cool’.

I don’t expect celeb treatment, neither do I behave like a celeb, but neither is Gilardu. Gilard has just managed to build his friendship way up from being the humble man he’s always been minus the Facebook Likes.

My point is: you can act as cool as you like on Facebook, you can collect as many Likes as you like but as they said: you may unlock as well as lock all the windows of your world because ultimately, it’s what you are and what you throw in the real world, that matters.

So what’s the point of all the Likes if the girl still hasn’t moved from A to B?

Is it habit? Is it modern way Facebook culture? No, it’s just as the people are telling you, Howard – you have not proved yourself enough.